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Food with Mark Bittman

Bittman Bite: Fish Tacos

Food with Mark Bittman

Sweetness and Light

Nutrition, Arts, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Food, Culture, Cooking

4.8981 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Food with Mark Bittman is coming May 24. Until then, here is a simple and delicious recipe for fish tacos.

  • Cook a chopped red onion in olive oil for a minute or two.
  • When it’s soft, add a big pinch of ground cumin or coriander and some salt and pepper.
  • Keeping the heat relatively high, add a pound or so of fish fillets and stir to break them into chunks, cooking until they’re just opaque.
  • Turn off heat, squeeze lime juice over the mixture and scrape up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan.
  • Warm corn tortillas and fill with the fish mixture.
  • Top with shredded cabbage, chopped tomato or tomatillos, a splash of hot sauce, and a dollop of sour cream. 
  • Any firm white fish works well here; or try crab or shrimp. 


Each week on Food with Mark Bittman, longtime New York Times food writer and #1 bestselling author Mark Bittman (How to Cook Everything, Eat Vegan Before 6:00) will cover everything to do with food, including cooking tips, quick recipes, listener questions, and discussions of the world's most important food issues from junk food to sustainability. Plus, Mark sits down with a different guest, from chefs and celebrities to activists and important people in the food world you may not know about. They talk about cooking, eating, and how food affects us all – our lives, our health, our planet.

Subscribe now to Food with Mark Bittman on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and don’t miss the first episode May 24 with Mark's special guest - the fabulous Nigella Lawson.


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0:00.0

Hey, this is Mark Bitman. You might know me from How to Cook Everything, or from the New York Times, or from the

0:07.0

Bitman Project. You might say I'm obsessed with everything about food.

0:13.0

and that's why I've started a new podcast called appropriately enough.

0:16.0

Food.

0:17.0

I'll tell you more about that in a minute, but first, here's one of my favorite recipes for fish tacos.

0:24.0

Well, everyone is always asking how you make fish tacos, and it's really pretty easy.

0:29.0

Cook some chopped onion and olive oil for just a minute or two until it starts to get soft.

0:34.0

Use a big saute pan for this.

0:36.0

Add some ground cumin or coriander or both a pretty big pinch and some salt and pepper.

0:42.0

Turn the heat until it's medium high or so and add about a pound of fish fillets,

0:46.7

halibits really good, grouper, snapper, swordfish,

0:51.0

something firm cut into chunks, and cook it until it's just tender and

0:55.4

opaque, turning to brown it a bit. Turn off the heat and squeeze some lime juice over

1:00.1

the whole mixture and then scrape the bottom of the pan in case there are any brown bits you want to incorporate.

1:06.0

Then warn some corn tortillas and just fill them with that fish mixture.

1:11.0

Top with some shredded cabbage, some chopped tomatoes or tomatios, a splash of hot sauce, and a

1:17.3

dollop of sour cream.

1:21.7

That was just a sample of the kind of tips and recipes you'll get on my new podcast, Food.

1:27.0

I'll also sit down with guests like Carla Hall, Tom Calicchio, Ted Danson, Jane Goodall, and important people in the food world you may not know about.

1:37.0

We'll talk about cooking, eating, and how food affects us all, our lives, our health, our planet.

1:44.0

I'll even take your questions, from how to boil a perfect egg,

1:48.0

to how to feed your picky toddler,

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